And he lifted up his eyes and saw, and behold, three men standing near him. And when he saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent-door, and bowed himself to the earth,

And the two angels came to Sodom at even. And Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. And Lot saw them, and rose up to meet them; and he bowed down, the face toward the ground,

And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying,

And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying,

And David said to all the congregation, Bless now Jehovah your God. And all the congregation blessed Jehovah the God of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and did homage to Jehovah and the king.

And my heart have been secretly enticed, so that my mouth kissed my hand:

Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people; thou hast covered all their sin. Selah.

And the heavens shall celebrate thy wonders, O Jehovah, and thy faithfulness in the congregation of the saints.

God is greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and terrible for all that are round about him.

For Jehovah is our shield, and the Holy One of Israel, our king. Then thou spakest in vision of thy Holy One, and saidst, I have laid help upon a mighty one; I have exalted one chosen out of the people.

I love those that love me; and they that seek me early shall find me.

Go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: I remember for thee the kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, when thou wentest after me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.

Have I any pleasure at all in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; is it not in his turning from his way, that he may live?

But Joseph, her husband, being a righteous man, and unwilling to expose her publicly, purposed to have put her away secretly;

But he answering said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word which goes out through God's mouth.

and says to him, All these things will I give thee if, falling down, thou wilt do me homage. Then says Jesus to him, Get thee away, Satan, for it is written, Thou shalt do homage to the Lord thy God, and him alone shalt thou serve.

Ye have heard that it was said to the ancients, Thou shalt not kill; but whosoever shall kill shall be subject to the judgment.

Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Again, ye have heard that it has been said to the ancients, Thou shalt not forswear thyself, but shalt render to the Lord what thou hast sworn.

And the demon having been cast out, the dumb spake. And the crowds were astonished, saying, It has never been seen thus in Israel.

He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.

All things have been delivered to me by my Father, and no one knows the Son but the Father, nor does any one know the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son may be pleased to reveal him. Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest. read more. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest to your souls;

But when the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places, seeking rest, and does not find it.

From every one who hears the word of the kingdom and does not understand it, the wicked one comes and catches away what was sown in his heart: this is he that is sown by the wayside.

But I say unto you that Elias has already come, and they have not known him, but have done unto him whatever they would. Thus also the Son of man is about to suffer from them.

The bondman therefore falling down did him homage, saying, Lord, have patience with me and I will pay thee all.

And he said to him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy understanding.

For this is my blood, that of the new covenant, that shed for many for remission of sins.

And leaving them, he went away again and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

And after a little, those who stood there, coming to him, said to Peter, Truly thou too art of them, for also thy speech makes thee manifest.

And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, who had said to him, Before the cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went forth without, and wept bitterly.

There came John baptising in the wilderness, and preaching the baptism of repentance for remission of sins.

saying, Eh! what have we to do with thee, Jesus, Nazarene? Art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the holy one of God.

but whosoever shall speak injuriously against the Holy Spirit, to eternity has no forgiveness; but lies under the guilt of an everlasting sin;

But Herodias kept it in her mind against him, and wished to kill him, and could not:

For all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he spoke with them, and says to them, Be of good courage: it is I; be not afraid.

making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.

And sitting down he called the twelve; and he says to them, If any one would be first, he shall be last of all, and minister of all.

And he said to them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, who like to walk about in long robes, and salutations in the marketplaces,

And going away, he prayed again, saying the same thing.

And he again denied. And again, after a little, those that stood by said to Peter, Truly thou art one of them, for also thou art a Galilean.

And these signs shall follow those that have believed: in my name they shall cast out demons; they shall speak with new tongues;

And they, going forth, preached everywhere, the Lord working with them, and confirming the word by the signs following upon it.

as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,

to give us, that, saved out of the hand of our enemies, we should serve him without fear

to give knowledge of deliverance to his people by the remission of their sins

and herself a widow up to eighty-four years; who did not depart from the temple, serving night and day with fastings and prayers;

And he came into all the district round the Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins,

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he has sent me to preach to captives deliverance, and to the blind sight, to send forth the crushed delivered,

And Simon answering said to him, Master, having laboured through the whole night we have taken nothing, but at thy word I will let down the net.

And stretching forth his hand he touched him, saying, I will; be thou cleansed: and immediately the leprosy departed from him.

coming up behind, touched the hem of his garment, and immediately her flux of blood stopped. And Jesus said, Who has touched me? But all denying, Peter and those with him said, Master, the crowds close thee in and press upon thee, and sayest thou, Who has touched me? read more. And Jesus said, Some one has touched me, for I have known that power has gone out from me. And the woman, seeing that she was not hid, came trembling, and falling down before him declared before all the people for what cause she had touched him, and how she was immediately healed.

When the unclean spirit has gone out of the man, he goes through dry places seeking rest; and not finding any he says, I will return to my house whence I came out.

But he became angry and would not go in. And his father went out and besought him.

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and mocked him.

behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones as ye see me having.

and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations beginning at Jerusalem.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we have contemplated his glory, a glory as of an only-begotten with a father), full of grace and truth;

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only-begotten Son, that whosoever believes on him may not perish, but have life eternal.

for he whom God has sent speaks the words of God, for God gives not the Spirit by measure. The Father loves the Son, and has given all things to be in his hand.

Ye worship ye know not what; we worship what we know, for salvation is of the Jews. But the hour is coming and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth; for also the Father seeks such as his worshippers.

And more a great deal believed on account of his word; and they said to the woman, It is no longer on account of thy saying that we believe, for we have heard him ourselves, and we know that this is indeed the Saviour of the world.

For the Father loves the Son and shews him all things which he himself does; and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may wonder.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, that he that hears my word, and believes him that has sent me, has life eternal, and does not come into judgment, but is passed out of death into life.

and ye have not his word abiding in you; for whom he hath sent, him ye do not believe.

They gathered them therefore together, and filled twelve hand-baskets full of fragments of the five barley loaves, which were over and above to those that had eaten.

No one can come to me except the Father who has sent me draw him, and I will raise him up in the last day.

Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness and died.

Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves.

Jesus therefore said to them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Unless ye shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of man, and drunk his blood, ye have no life in yourselves. He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood has life eternal, and I will raise him up at the last day:

He that eats my flesh and drinks my blood dwells in me and I in him. As the living Father has sent me and I live on account of the Father, he also who eats me shall live also on account of me. read more. This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.

This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.

This is the bread which has come down out of heaven. Not as the fathers ate and died: he that eats this bread shall live for ever.

It is the Spirit which quickens, the flesh profits nothing: the words which I have spoken unto you are spirit and are life.

Jesus therefore said to the twelve, Will ye also go away? Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast words of life eternal;

The Jews therefore wondered, saying, How knows this man letters, having never learned?

Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

I know that ye are Abraham's seed; but ye seek to kill me, because my word has no entrance in you.

Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

Why do ye not know my speech? Because ye cannot hear my word.

He that is of God hears the words of God: therefore ye hear them not, because ye are not of God.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any one shall keep my word, he shall never see death. The Jews therefore said to him, Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham has died, and the prophets, and thou sayest, If any one keep my word, he shall never taste death.

If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and the scripture cannot be broken),

The sisters therefore sent to him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick.

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus.

The Jews therefore said, Behold how he loved him!

He that loves his life shall lose it, and he that hates his life in this world shall keep it to life eternal.

and I, if I be lifted up out of the earth, will draw all to me.

and if any one hear my words and do not keep them, I judge him not, for I am not come that I might judge the world, but that I might save the world. He that rejects me and does not receive my words, has him who judges him: the word which I have spoken, that shall judge him in the last day.

Now before the feast of the passover, Jesus, knowing that his hour had come that he should depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, loved them to the end.

Believest thou not that I am in the Father, and that the Father is in me? The words which I speak to you I do not speak from myself; but the Father who abides in me, he does the works.

Jesus answered and said to him, If any one love me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our abode with him. He that loves me not does not keep my words; and the word which ye hear is not mine, but that of the Father who has sent me.

Ye are already clean by reason of the word which I have spoken to you.

Remember the word which I said unto you, The bondman is not greater than his master. If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you; if they have kept my word, they will keep also yours.

They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;

for the Father himself has affection for you, because ye have had affection for me, and have believed that I came out from God.

I have manifested thy name to the men whom thou gavest me out of the world. They were thine, and thou gavest them me, and they have kept thy word.

for the words which thou hast given me I have given them, and they have received them, and have known truly that I came out from thee, and have believed that thou sentest me.

I have given them thy word, and the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, as I am not of the world.

Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.

But ye have a custom that I release some one to you at the passover; will ye therefore that I release unto you the king of the Jews?

Jesus says to her, Touch me not, for I have not yet ascended to my Father; but go to my brethren and say to them, I ascend to my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God.

And he said to them, Cast the net at the right side of the ship and ye will find. They cast therefore, and they could no longer draw it, from the multitude of fishes. That disciple therefore whom Jesus loved says to Peter, It is the Lord. Simon Peter therefore, having heard that it was the Lord, girded his overcoat on him (for he was naked), and cast himself into the sea; read more. and the other disciples came in the small boat, for they were not far from the land, but somewhere about two hundred cubits, dragging the net of fishes. When therefore they went out on the land, they see a fire of coals there, and fish laid on it, and bread. Jesus says to them, Bring of the fishes which ye have now taken. Simon Peter went up and drew the net to the land full of great fishes, a hundred and fifty-three; and though there were so many, the net was not rent.

And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gave to them to speak forth.

for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.

for thou wilt not leave my soul in hades, nor wilt thou give thy gracious one to see corruption.

And Peter said to them, Repent, and be baptised, each one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for remission of sins, and ye will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

But seeing the boldness of Peter and John, and perceiving that they were unlettered and uninstructed men, they wondered; and they recognised them that they were with Jesus.

And when they had prayed, the place in which they were assembled shook, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness.

Him has God exalted by his right hand as leader and saviour, to give repentance to Israel and remission of sins.

but we will give ourselves up to prayer and the ministry of the word.

and the nation to which they shall be in bondage will I judge, said God; and after these things they shall come forth and serve me in this place.

But God turned and delivered them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, Have ye offered me victims and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, the forms which ye made to do homage to them; and I will transport you beyond Babylon.

But Saul ravaged the assembly, entering into the houses one after another, and dragging off both men and women delivered them up to prison.

pious, and fearing God with all his house, both giving much alms to the people, and supplicating God continually,

And when the angel who was speaking to him had departed, having called two of his household and a pious soldier of those who were constantly with him,

And when Peter was now coming in, Cornelius met him, and falling down did him homage.

To him all the prophets bear witness that every one that believes on him will receive through his name remission of sins.

who, having arrived and seeing the grace of God, rejoiced, and exhorted all with purpose of heart to abide with the Lord;

But that he raised him from among the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David.

But that he raised him from among the dead, no more to return to corruption, he spoke thus: I will give to you the faithful mercies of David. Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption.

Wherefore also he says in another, Thou wilt not suffer thy gracious one to see corruption.

Be it known unto you, therefore, brethren, that through this man remission of sins is preached to you, and from all things from which ye could not be justified in the law of Moses, in him every one that believes is justified.

And much discussion having taken place, Peter, standing up, said to them, Brethren, ye know that from the earliest days God amongst you chose that the nations by my mouth should hear the word of the glad tidings and believe.

For Moses, from generations of old, has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every sabbath.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

for, passing through and beholding your shrines, I found also an altar on which was inscribed, To the unknown God. Whom therefore ye reverence, not knowing him, him I announce to you.

nor is served by men's hands as needing something, himself giving to all life and breath and all things;

that they may seek God; if indeed they might feel after him and find him, although he is not far from each one of us:

And the Lord said by vision in the night to Paul, Fear not, but speak and be not silent;

And some of the disciples from Caesarea went with us, bringing with them a certain Mnason, a Cyprian, an old disciple, with whom we were to lodge.

And a certain Ananias, a pious man according to the law, borne witness to by all the Jews who dwelt there,

And on the morrow, desirous to know the certainty of the matter why he was accused of the Jews, he loosed him, and commanded the chief priests and all the council to meet, and having brought Paul down set him before them.

And desiring to know the charge on which they accused him, I brought him down to their council;

But this I avow to thee, that in the way which they call sect, so I serve my fathers' God, believing all things which are written throughout the law, and in the prophets;

ordering the centurion to keep him, and that he should have freedom, and to hinder none of his friends to minister to him.

And Agrippa said to Festus, I myself also would desire to hear the man. To-morrow, said he, thou shalt hear him.

to which our whole twelve tribes serving incessantly day and night hope to arrive; about which hope, O king, I am accused of the Jews.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

And as he answered for his defence with these things, Festus says with a loud voice, Thou art mad, Paul; much learning turns thee to madness.

But the centurion, desirous of saving Paul, hindered them of their purpose, and commanded those who were able to swim, casting themselves first into the sea, to get out on land;

who having examined me were minded to let me go, because there was nothing worthy of death in me.

marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of holiness, by resurrection of the dead) Jesus Christ our Lord;

For God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the glad tidings of his Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

But I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that I often proposed to come to you, (and have been hindered until the present time,) that I might have some fruit among you too, even as among the other nations also.

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

who changed the truth of God into falsehood, and honoured and served the creature more than him who had created it, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

whom God has set forth a mercy-seat, through faith in his blood, for the shewing forth of his righteousness, in respect of the passing by the sins that had taken place before, through the forbearance of God;

knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with him, that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.

I speak humanly on account of the weakness of your flesh. For even as ye have yielded your members in bondage to uncleanness and to lawlessness unto lawlessness, so now yield your members in bondage to righteousness unto holiness.

But now, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life.

For that which I do, I do not own: for not what I will, this I do; but what I hate, this I practise. But if what I do not will, this I practise, I consent to the law that it is right.

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, good does not dwell: for to will is there with me, but to do right I find not. For I do not practise the good that I will; but the evil I do not will, that I do. read more. But if what I do not will, this I practise, it is no longer I that do it, but the sin that dwells in me. I find then the law upon me who will to practise what is right, that with me evil is there.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

But we do know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to purpose.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the law-giving, and the service, and the promises;

Not however as though the word of God had failed; for not all are Israel which are of Israel;

the children indeed being not yet born, or having done anything good or worthless (that the purpose of God according to election might abide, not of works, but of him that calls),

So then it is not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shews mercy.

Thou wilt say to me then, Why does he yet find fault? for who resists his purpose?

But what says it? The word is near thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach:

So faith then is by a report, but the report by God's word.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the compassions of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your intelligent service.

but God has revealed to us by his Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.

So that do not judge anything before the time, until the Lord shall come, who shall also both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and shall make manifest the counsels of hearts; and then shall each have his praise from God.

Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, according as ye are unleavened. For also our passover, Christ, has been sacrificed; so that let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven, nor with leaven of malice and wickedness, but with unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift of God: one man thus, and another thus.

But if any one of the unbelievers invite you, and ye are minded to go, all that is set before you eat, making no inquiry for conscience sake.

But now God has set the members, each one of them in the body, according as it has pleased him.

Since otherwise, if thou blessest with the spirit, how shall he who fills the place of the simple Christian say Amen, at thy giving of thanks, since he does not know what thou sayest?

If therefore the whole assembly come together in one place, and all speak with tongues, and simple persons enter in, or unbelievers, will not they say ye are mad? But if all prophesy, and some unbeliever or simple person come in, he is convicted of all, he is judged of all;

and God gives to it a body as he has pleased, and to each of the seeds its own body.

If any one love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema Maranatha.

For our boasting is this, the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity before God, (not in fleshly wisdom but in God's grace,) we have had our conversation in the world, and more abundantly towards you.

I had no rest in my spirit at not finding Titus my brother; but bidding them adieu, I came away to Macedonia.

who has also made us competent, as ministers of the new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.

But their thoughts have been darkened, for unto this day the same veil remains in reading the old covenant, unremoved, which in Christ is annulled.

Having therefore these promises, beloved, let us purify ourselves from every pollution of flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in God's fear.

For indeed, when we came into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were afflicted in every way; without combats, within fears.

For it is not in order that there may be ease for others, and for you distress,

But if I am a simple person in speech, yet not in knowledge, but in everything making the truth manifest in all things to you.

I am crucified with Christ, and no longer live, I, but Christ lives in me; but in that I now live in flesh, I live by faith, the faith of the Son of God, who has loved me and given himself for me.

in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of offences, according to the riches of his grace;

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,

in whom we have also obtained an inheritance, being marked out beforehand according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his own will,

among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

For we are the circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God, and boast in Christ Jesus, and do not trust in flesh.

in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins;

For in him dwells all the fulness of the Godhead bodily;

And you, being dead in offences and in the uncircumcision of your flesh, he has quickened together with him, having forgiven us all the offences;

Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch,

Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry.

Do not lie to one another, having put off the old man with his deeds,

forbearing one another, and forgiving one another, if any should have a complaint against any; even as the Christ has forgiven you, so also do ye.

in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

and to you that are troubled repose with us, at the revelation of the Lord Jesus from heaven, with the angels of his power,

who opposes and exalts himself on high against all called God, or object of veneration; so that he himself sits down in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

who desires that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth.

I will therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up pious hands, without wrath or reasoning.

But younger widows decline; for when they grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry,

I will therefore that the younger marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary in respect of reproach.

I will therefore that the younger marry, bear children, rule the house, give no occasion to the adversary in respect of reproach.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin. For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

who has saved us, and has called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages of time,

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

But thou hast been thoroughly acquainted with my teaching, conduct, purpose, faith, longsuffering, love, endurance,

but has manifested in its own due season his word, in the proclamation with which I have been entrusted, according to the commandment of our Saviour God;

but hospitable, a lover of goodness, discreet, just, pious, temperate,

a sound word, not to be condemned; that he who is opposed may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say about us:

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

All with me salute thee. Salute those who love us in the faith. Grace be with you all.

whom I was desirous of keeping with myself, that for thee he might minister to me in the bonds of the glad tidings;

who being the effulgence of his glory and the expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made by himself the purification of sins, set himself down on the right hand of the greatness on high,

For if the word which was spoken by angels was firm, and every transgression and disobedience received just retribution,

For the word of God is living and operative, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and penetrating to the division of soul and spirit, both of joints and marrow, and a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Wherefore, leaving the word of the beginning of the Christ, let us go on to what belongs to full growth, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and faith in God,

and have tasted the good word of God, and the works of power of the age to come,

Wherein God, willing to shew more abundantly to the heirs of the promise the unchangeableness of his purpose, intervened by an oath,

For such a high priest became us, holy, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:

(who serve the representation and shadow of heavenly things, according as Moses was oracularly told when about to make the tabernacle; for See, saith He, that thou make all things according to the pattern which has been shewn to thee in the mountain.)

The first therefore also indeed had ordinances of service, and the sanctuary, a worldly one. For a tabernacle was set up; the first, in which were both the candlestick and the table and the exposition of the loaves, which is called Holy;

Now these things being thus ordered, into the first tabernacle the priests enter at all times, accomplishing the services;

how much rather shall the blood of the Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself spotless to God, purify your conscience from dead works to worship the living God?

and almost all things are purified with blood according to the law, and without blood-shedding there is no remission.

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

Since, would they not indeed have ceased being offered, on account of the worshippers once purged having no longer any conscience of sins?

This is the covenant which I will establish towards them after those days, saith the Lord: Giving my laws into their hearts, I will write them also in their understandings; and their sins and their lawlessnesses I will never remember any more. read more. But where there is remission of these, there is no longer a sacrifice for sin.

By faith we apprehend that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that that which is seen should not take its origin from things which appear.

By faith he celebrated the passover and the sprinkling of the blood, that the destroyer of the firstborn might not touch them.

For they indeed chastened for a few days, as seemed good to them; but he for profit, in order to the partaking of his holiness.

Pursue peace with all, and holiness, without which no one shall see the Lord:

For ye have not come to the mount that might be touched and was all on fire, and to obscurity, and darkness, and tempest,

(for they were not able to bear what was enjoined: And if a beast should touch the mountain, it shall be stoned;

Wherefore let us, receiving a kingdom not to be shaken, have grace, by which let us serve God acceptably with reverence and fear.

We have an altar of which they have no right to eat who serve the tabernacle;

Every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom is no variation nor shadow of turning. According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

According to his own will begat he us by the word of truth, that we should be a certain first-fruits of his creatures.

Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore is minded to be the friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.

But ye are a chosen race, a kingly priesthood, a holy nation, a people for a possession, that ye might set forth the excellencies of him who has called you out of darkness to his wonderful light;

For this is hidden from them through their own wilfulness, that heavens were of old, and an earth, having its subsistence out of water and in water, by the word of God,

The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.

Beloved, I write no new commandment to you, but an old commandment, which ye have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye heard.

Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son a propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God has so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and are not, but lie; behold, I will cause that they shall come and shall do homage before thy feet, and shall know that I have loved thee.

And the four living creatures, each one of them having respectively six wings; round and within they are full of eyes; and they cease not day and night saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, who was, and who is, and who is to come.

Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple, and he that sits upon the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.

And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

and it exercises all the authority of the first beast before it, and causes the earth and those that dwell in it to do homage to the first beast, whose wound of death was healed.

And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should also speak, and should cause that as many as should not do homage to the image of the beast should be killed.

And the smoke of their torment goes up to ages of ages, and they have no respite day and night who do homage to the beast and to its image, and if any one receive the mark of its name.

Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? for thou only art holy; for all nations shall come and do homage before thee; for thy righteousnesses have been made manifest.

And the first went and poured out his bowl on the earth; and there came an evil and grievous sore upon the men that had the mark of the beast, and those who worshipped its image.

And I heard the angel of the waters saying, Thou art righteous, who art and wast, the holy one, that thou hast judged so;

And I fell before his feet to do him homage. And he says to me, See thou do it not. I am thy fellow-bondman, and the fellow-bondman of thy brethren who have the testimony of Jesus. Do homage to God. For the spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

And he laid hold of the dragon, the ancient serpent who is the devil and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

And no curse shall be any more; and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him,